The Franchise Should Pass A Driving Test
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Anti-Democratic Rightist believes one person, one vote was a fine slogan and a worse policy, ideally to be replaced by one person, one essay, marked. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from UK Parliament on the franchise and Britannica on democracy.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Anti-Democratic Right On A British High Street
- Has explained, at length, that he is not anti-democratic, just pro-better-democracy.
- Refers to elections the way some men refer to fortnightly admin.
- Holds the franchise should be passed, like a driving test, with at least one essay.
- Maintains a fantasy in which voting requires a quiz.
- Refers to the universal franchise as the brave experiment that has had its run.
- Treats any sentence containing the words ordinary voter as slightly comic.
- Maintains a binder of essays on weighted voting.
- Refers to constitutional conventions as adult versions of school clubs.
- Holds any major decision should be made by a small panel of the right people.
- Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to the wise.
- Refers to elite consensus as the only honest verb.
- Treats any referendum as a sort of cardiovascular event.
- Maintains a soft spot for advisory councils, hard spot for opinion polls.
- Refers to citizens the way some men refer to congregations.
- Holds the cure for democracy is a slightly more demanding democracy.
- Maintains a fantasy in which the House of Lords runs the country quietly.
- Refers to mob rule the way priests refer to disorder of the soul.
- Treats any plebiscite as a small national tantrum.
- Has explained he is fundamentally on the side of the people, just not all of them.
- Believes the cure for the country is a slightly slower Tuesday and a panel of the right people.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meet-up with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see The Daily Mash.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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